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The Milford Branch is an abandoned railroad line in Massachusetts.The line formerly ran from Milford to Framingham, traveling through Holliston and Sherborn, connecting to the Boston Subdivision in Framingham and the Milford Secondary in Milford.
see also Boston, Winthrop and Point Shirley Railroad and Eastern Junction, Broad Sound Pier and Point Shirley Railroad, which built lines and later abandoned them Cape Ann Granite Railroad: Pigeon Cove Harbor: Cape Ann Granite Company quarries: Grafton and Upton Railroad: North Grafton: Milford: Upton Loop, West Upton to Upton: Hampden Railroad ...
In the 88 stations case, the railroad abandoned 88 stations in Massachusetts and five in Rhode Island on a single day in 1938. The Supreme Court ruled in November 1939 ( Palmer v. Massachusetts ) that the railroad had not been given proper permission, and 32 of the stations were reopened in 1940.
It ran from North Wrentham, Massachusetts (now Norfolk), where it connected with the main line of the Norfolk County Railroad, to Medway, Massachusetts. The 3.6-mile (5.8 km) Medway Branch was abandoned in 1864, following the 1861 completion of the New York and Boston Railroad 's separate line through Medway.
In Millville, Massachusetts, the SNE would have passed over the Blackstone River on another (straighter) high-level bridge, with both the New York and New England Railroad (now abandoned) and the Providence and Worcester Railroad (still in use) below. Several full-height supports were built as well as several partial supports in the river.
On May 22, 2013, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and the City of Cambridge announced their acquisition of major portions of the remaining abandoned right-of-way from the railroad for $1.3 million plus an additional, unspecified amount from Cambridge, allowing completion of the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad in 1888. To restore service to the line the Central Massachusetts Railroad was formed out of the failed Massachusetts Central Railroad Company on November 10, 1883. The directors contracted with the B&L to operate trains over the Central Massachusetts route in the fall of 1885 with service resuming from Boston ...
Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad: Union Railroad: NYC: 1848 1854 Grand Junction Railroad and Depot Company: Union Freight Railroad: NH: 1872 1969 N/A Fall River Railroad (1846) NH: 1845 1846 Fall River Railroad: Vermont Central Railroad: CN: 1871 1873 Central Vermont Railroad: Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad: B&M: 1844 Vineyard Sound ...